Community Input on Oregon’s New Education Workforce Survey

In recent years, there has been increased focus on the workers that serve Oregon schools and students. Particularly since the pandemic, there has been widespread media coverage related to the difficulties of working in public education, and there have been a number of ideas proposed to help schools and districts recruit and retain a healthy and effective workforce. To that end, the 2023 Legislature enacted Senate Bill 283 to better understand and support Oregon’s education workforce. One of the provisions of that bill requires that the Oregon Department of Education develop and administer an annual statewide workforce survey. 

This summer and fall, ODE partnered with Oregon’s Kitchen Table to hear from a wide range of school and district staff members in different parts of the state about how the survey could be most accessible and helpful to people working in Oregon schools and districts.  Approximately 200 people participated in the different engagement activities and shared a range of perspectives, experiences, and hopes for ODE to consider in developing first a pilot survey and subsequent years’ surveys.

You can read our full report here.  ODE is also providing updates as they develop the pilot survey here.